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Their dog died yesterday from eating grapes.

Tamer wakes alone, thinning blond hair hanging down over his eyes

Tamer wakes alone, thinning blond hair hanging down over his eyes.

The girl and the boy speed further and further away from Piacenza, where they should have detrained.

Madeleine was Kathryn's mother's age, mid-fifties.

At sunrise I checked out of the Hotel Ajanta in New Delhi and met my new friend Sudesh in the lobby.

On the twenty-eighth day of June, 1960, which is the planned day of my deliverance, I awake at exactly six a.m. to find myself, on the first day of my eighteenth year, listening to the ringing of the bells from the Catholic church which I now attend only reluctantly on Sundays.

After hockey practice, one afternoon, it unrolls for you like the scroll of meat in a tin of tuna, or the rings of a tree from around the date of its beginning in a dot of sap.

For the moment, Josef had ghosts on his mind.

The old woman across the street was watching Dr. Levy as he cleared the driveway.